Ecosystem

Creating an open and extensible software ecosystem for geoscience is a major endeavor, and many organizations are pushing forward towards this goal. Many of these efforts target the same overall problem as DigitalCrust, but are focused on different facets of the overall problem.

Community organizations

Community hubs

• Software Underground
• LinkedEarth
• Paleo Data Knowledge Hub: enables open access to resources for anyone producing, managing, or utilizing paleontological specimen data.
• CSDMS
• Awesome Open Geoscience

Major organizations

• Earth Science Information Partners
• EarthCube

Software collectives

• rOpenSci
• PyOpenSci
• Palaeoverse
• Pangeo: Wide collaboration to assemble a software stack for big-data geoscience.

Education

• CU Boulder EarthLab
• Software Carpentry

Data repositories

• IEDA2: A set of repositories and data infrastructures for geological data. An umbrella organization around SESAR and EarthChem.
• DesignSafe CI: A data repository for geological engineering and Earth hazard data.

Organizational data portals

• NASA Earthdata
• EarthMRI
• ScienceBase